Huntsville gazette., 1887-10-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| ior IfeSluehG ana Terrence V. POwderly,
of Pennsylvania, for Vice President.
| DYNAMITE which was being dried at a
fire, exploded at Leitcher, n S., on the
/ 2lst, killing maA named Mckenzie and
j badi. aring a ran named Mccormick.
ne Ysz y e1s la %5tse u on tno taye reton
railway.
The cornerstone of the Clark Univer-
sity was laid at Worcester, Mass, on the
22d, with appropriate ceremonies and in
the presence of large concourse of peo-
pie.
b. I'll. STONE, editor of the Tahlequah U.
T.) Telephone, was fatally shot on the aft
ernoon of the 22d by E. C. Boudinot, Jr,
one OF the most prominent lawyers in the
Territory and editor of the Cherokee Id
Uocdte. The killing grew out of the election
contest over the chiefship
THE United States Supreme Court de-
cided on the 22d to hear further argument
upon the application for a writ of error
in the case of the condemned Chicago An
archists on the 9th, when the State of
| Illinois will be represented by Attorney
General Hunt.
SAN FRANCISCO is making an effort to
| secure the National Democratic conven-
ton next year.
| DURING the month of September last
4S,l6l immigrants landed in this country,
against 39,9l7 in September, 1885,
The death is announced of Waldemar
Adolph Thisted, the Danish poet and
| novelist, in his seventy third year.
| The japanning oven at the works of J,
| Fl. Sessions & Sons at Waterbury, Conn.,,
exploded on the 22d, instantly killing
three persons and injuring several others.
ST. LOUIS had $500, 900 fire on the night
of the 22d, in one of the principal business
blocks down town. The Scarritt Furniture
Company, Mitchell Furniture Company,
| Woolman, Todd & Co., boots and shoes,
| Leonhard Roos, furs, are among the prin-
cipal losers.
PERRY ACKERS entered the office of
| Mayor j. o. French, at Maxwell, Ia, on
the evening of the 22d, and shot and
killed him, also wounded 7. B. Schneider.
He afterwards shot himself, dying imme-
diately. No cause is known for the
tragedy.
GILMoRE's BAND left ST. Louis on the
night of the 22d, after the close of the Ex-
position season in that city, and went d.
rect to Kansas City, where they will
boom the Exposition at that place with
their unrivaled music.
THE Crown Prince of Germany is still
< at Bavensss- .The infa5an stion OF tllis
throat does SGT ain. He viii go to Merv
at the end of Che month.
CHICAGO Knights of Labor have declared
open war against the general executive
| board.
A DENIAL comes from Washington of the
story that Mrs. Adair is to marry the dis
solute and disreputable Duke of Marlboro.
CONGRESSMAN O'FERRALL, of Virginia,
! is hopeful of Democratic victory in that
| Stot h,t is+. hot
| move the tax from apple brandy.
Mrs. J. BAILEY committed suicide at
McCook, Neb., on the morning of the 23d,
! by shooting herself with a revolver. She
| had been married only about two weeks
No cause can be given for the deed.
| A FURIOUS gale, accompanied by snow
| and rain, was raging on the lakes on the
| 3d. and it is feared that the loss to ship
| ping will be heavy.
| AMONG the arrivals at New York from
| Europe on the 23d were Right Revs. c. T.
! Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee, and W. S.
Perry, Bishop of Iowa.
/ THE steam launch Mary burst her boiler
| at the foot of East One Hundred and Six
teenth street, New York, on the 23d, in
stanty killing John and Patrick Cunning
| ham, brothers. Their bodies were liter
ally blown to atoms. Two other persons
were seriously injured.
| A TERRIFIC snowstorm was raging at
| Gaylord, Mich., and vicinity, on the 24th,
and the snow was eight inches deep.
| JAMES KNIGHT, NJ. D., surgeon-in-chief
| of the hospital for the relief of the
| ruptured and crippled, in New York, is
| dead.
| STATES ATTORNEY GRINNELL left for
| Washington on the 24th, to take part in
l Tod SLntn
| Supreme Court in the Chicago Anarch-
| ists' case.
| THE Michigan g. Ohio Coal and Lumber
| Company, capital $50 900, whose yards
and mills are located at Tecumseh, Mich,
| have assigned. Liabilities about So, 900;
| assets the same.
MARINE COLEMAN has been sentenced by
court-martial at Annapolis, Md, to ten
days. solitary confinement for s'disrespect-
full language" in refusing to take pills
prescribed by the naval physician.
GENERAL FERRoN, French Minister of
War; has given his consent to the reduc
! ton of the war estimates by S1,S00,0O0.
The reductions in the budget now aggre-
gate So. 100000.
WnKIE, the London telegraph operator
who was arrested month ago, charged
with Withholding messages about the
races, thereby ''bilking" the bookmakers,
has confessed.
1T is announced on the authority of Re-
ceiver Armstrong that the Fidelity Bank
of Cincinnati will declare a dividend OF
twenty five per cent. October 81. All de-
positors with the defunct concern will re-
ceive the benefit of this.
w. ARCHIBALD FORBES, the famous war
correspondent Of the London Daily Neaos,
arrived in New York on the 24th. He is in
very poor health, and looks worn and
haggard. All his engagements to lecture
have been cancelled.
A DISPATCH from Balmorai Castle an
nounces that Princess Beatrice, wife of
Prince Henry of Battenburg, has been de-
livered of a daughter. Both are doing
well.
CHARLES L. Phillips, president OF the
defunct Colum bian Bank of Philadelphia,
has fed the country, having sailed for
Havre on the 22d. His departure was sud-
den, and it is believed that he left the
country to avoid criminal prosecution.
RATTERy of six boilers exploded at